Second Life: The Home of Online Gambling?

Finally, someone's found the true nature of Second Life! It's a front for online gambling, of course. Well, not exactly, but this article from Techdirt does point out that the recently banned art form of losing your money online is alive and well in LindenLabs's universe.

As the exaggerated hype around Second Life has continued to grow, quite a few people have started pointing out that the most prominent activities in Second Life aren't the highbrow talks given by famous people, or various economic or social experiments, but like so many popular internet spaces: vices rule the day. Especially popular is gambling -- though, you almost never hear about that when the press writes up their latest gushing piece about some big celebrity showing up in Second Life or a big company opening a virtual building there.

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